Comments on: Linkify Your Twitter Feed

By: Shahid

Shahid — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:14:18 +0000

thank you very much. i have been searching for this for two days and could not find any solutions. but luckily i see this and done in 10 minutes.

By: RJ

RJ — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:35:17 +0000

What about URLs that contain hash characters? Won’t the part of the URL after the tag get linkified as a hashtag?

By: sdesocio

sdesocio — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:34:01 +0000

Im kind of a dummy with this stuff but I thought I was supposed to put everything inside of the function.php file, but that doesnt seem to work.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:59:58 +0000

Thanks!!
Save my day…

By: Alex Hall

Alex Hall — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:12:22 +0000

Thank you so much for creating this! I’ve got everything else sorted for a little Twitter App I’m working on, but I have no clue when it comes to Regex in PHP, so this is perfect!

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:56:18 +0000

Any idea on why I’m getting a “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: json_decode()”? I’m running PHP 5.2.9 so I believe this function would be in there.

By: Jeremy Parrish

Jeremy Parrish — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:41:34 +0000

@Josh: The function should really only be passed the actual tweet text, without any container markup. However, if you can assure that there is no whitespace character immediately preceding the ‘#’ character (e.g. “color:#ab0000;”), you should be OK. I still wouldn’t recommend using it that way, though.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:01:16 +0000

I’ve created a wordpress plugin that will automatically create tag and user links in your posts/pages/comments when #tagname or @username are used… However, I’ve just noticed an issue. When the function runs hooked to “the_content()” if you have any inline styles (color=”#ab0000;”) then the colors are assumed to be tags since they have the pound symbol in front of them.

Is there a way to make the regex differentiate between css color codes and tags you insert?

By: Jeremy Parrish

Jeremy Parrish — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:32:24 +0000

@Marty: Thanks for the note. I'm glad you found it useful! If you want, you could probably throw your code up on David's pastebin and throw a link back here in the comments. It sounds like it might be useful for others.

By: Marty Thornley

Marty Thornley — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:20:45 +0000

Jeremy!

Thank you so much. I have been searching and searching for any easy way to do this that was not already buried in a wordpress plugin or some other place where there were a bunch of extras I didn’t need. All I wanted was to call a simple function passing username and the number of statuses to echo.

I combined all your stuff and wrote a function called get_Tweets() . It takes $username and $count as variables, loops through the count and echos $count number of statuses as LI elements. So simple, yet I couldn’t find the starting point anywhere!

To include it with the wordpress theme I am building, I just stuck the finished function in my functions.php file then called get_Tweets(‘USERNAME’, ‘COUNT’) between a UL tag.

I wanted to include a copy of the code in here, but it didn’t seem to want to let me include the php and it looked a little confusing.

I would be happy to share with anyone who is interested.

Thanks again, Jeremy!

Going to subscribe to your RSS and check out the rest of your site.

Marty